Vulnerability in jquery-validation (CVE-2021-21252)
Summary
Vulnerability in jquery-validation (CVE-2021-21252). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.19.3 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
The GitHub Security Lab team has identified potential security vulnerabilities in jquery.validation.
The project contains one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)
This issue was discovered and reported by GitHub team member @erik-krogh (Erik Krogh Kristensen).
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21252 has been found in jquery-validation.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade jquery-validation to 1.19.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "jquery-validation CVE-2021-21252" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2021-21252 (jquery-validation) — CWE-400
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 1.19.3 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-400) exists in jquery-validation.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of jquery-validation.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 1.19.3.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'jquery-validation' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'jquery-validation' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
jquery-validationを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade jquery-validation to 1.19.3ステージング環境で 1.19.3 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2021-21252 phpmyadmin
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory securitylab.github.com
- package github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web jqueryvalidation.org
- web lists.debian.org
- web security.netapp.com
- web npmjs.com
- web nuget.org